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Would you be running a simple website in an HA-environment located in a tier-4 datacenter? Is testing trial software on a virtual machine in a geo-redundant cluster okay? Is a Green IT label for a tier-4 facility appropriate if it’s only used for tier-3 applications?
Designing and operating data centers efficiently means more than just picking modern cooling methods and keeping an eye on your UPS’s PUE.
Are you using your resources wisely? Do your DCIM tools provide enough information to find out?
Oliver Lindner will showcase an integrated solution to improve the efficiency over all areas of a data centers value chain.

Hyperconverged infrastructure represents the face of today's rapid IT evolution, in which enterprises seek efficient, streamlined technology to meet stringent business demands. Once a supportive, edge infrastructure, hyperconverged has matured into a primary infrastructure solution used in today's core datacenters. However, finding the right fit for hyperconverged in existing IT environments poses a challenge for many organizations.

Join 451 Research to understand the drivers behind hyperconverged adoption and learn how IT teams are using this technology to boost their business advantage.

Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) brings together all the primary tech constructs such as compute, memory, network and storage. HCI provides IT pros consistency in the form of infrastructure building blocks. As an IT professional, this removes the barrier to consume; but it presents challenges that move up the application stack.

In this session, we will discuss how to monitor HCI with discipline.
·How do I manage applications efficiently and effectively on HCI?

·How do I put into practice skills and techniques that delivers acceptable Quality-of-Service (QoS) and success in an HCI environment?

Hyper converged infrastructure is starting to become the new norm in the IT space as customers are seeking for a solution which will help them solve the three main challenges; cost reduction, providing agility to the business and simplify datacenter operations.

As we all know, technology alone cannot provide the full solution to the problem, that is why a new mode of operations is the key to maximize the full potential of a technology like; Hyper Converge.

In our session, we will discuss:
1. The new mode of operations?
2. What are the main benefits while adopting new team structures and new processes
3. Where to start

Are Converged Infrastructures (CI), Hyper-Converged Infrastructures (HCI), Cluster in Box or Cloud in Box (CiB) solutions for you? The answer is it depends on what your needs, requirements, application among other criteria are. In addition are you focused on a particular technology solution or architecture approach, or, looking for something that adapts to your needs? Join us in this discussion exploring your options for different scenario as we look beyond they hype including to next wave of hyper-scale converged along with applicable decision making criteria.

Topics include:
- Data Infrastructures exist to support applications and their underlying resource needs
- What are your application and environment needs along with other objectives
- Explore various approaches for hyper-small and hyper-large environments
- What are you converging, hardware, hypervisors, management or something else?
- Does HCI mean hyper-vendor-lock-in, if so, is that a bad thing?
- When, where, why and how to use different scenarios

This webinar will look at hyperconverged infrastructures. It will cover the evolution of convergence from traditional approaches to IT, through reference architectures, converged systems and ultimately hyperconverged systems, comparing the pros and cons of each approach.

Join Terri McClure, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, for a deep dive into convergence and discussion around the benefits and potential challenges of a hyper-converged infrastructure.

Traditional tactics to analytics deliver ample analysis after the event. While beating a dead horse might still help unravel some mystery, what business leaders really want today is the information to make complex decisions in real time. Real Time Analytics (RTA) powered by In-Memory Computing can eliminate this concern. Further still, a truly disruptive hybrid model that shrewdly mixes both, “Relying on the past to predict the future” and “Real Time Analytics” is the way forward, in this digital era.

By flexing a variety of emerging technologies and blending the existing BI infrastructure, how we can precisely address operational, tactical and strategic business decisions will be discussed in this session.

Modern trends, such as Internet of Everything (IoE), are rapidly changing the way we work and live, which makes it difficult for traditional datacenters to cope with the pace and adjust to Big Data paradigms – it is time for hyperconverged infrastructure.

Do you ever wonder: How do modern monitoring solutions address these new trends and provide visibility into hyperconverged infrastructure? How do they connect this information with applications running on it?

Join us to learn more about modern monitoring approaches for hyperconverged infrastructure with use cases for both:
- On-premise monitoring platform, like Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Tip: You will also learn how you can connect different management packs together
- Cloud based monitoring platform, like Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)
Tip: You will also learn about log and event analytics possibilities for hyperconverged infrastructure, such as Nutanix

We are moving to becoming a cloud first and mobile first connected world, but are the existing telecom and networking vendor models still a fit? Are they even capable of meeting demands? We will cover the developments we see in the interconnection business and focus on the move to a true consumption based model for network services.

5G is the next evolutionary step in cellular communication poised to become the de-facto global wireless standard. Besides bolstering gigabit speeds over mobile networks, 5G promises to support technology essential for connectivity of IoT, paving the way for a wider range of services and new disruptive business models. While the world is currently enjoying 4G/LTE mobile broadband services, standardization efforts for 5G have begun. Technology development of 5G is gathering pace with many operators planning for initial 5G trials and even bringing pre-standard 5G networks to life within next one to two years. This presentation will focus on the state of the mobility market, the business need of 5G and some initial use cases.

When the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) last looked at the Ethernet Roadmap for Networked Storage in 2015, we anticipated a world of rapid change. The list of advances in 2016 is nothing short of amazing:

•New adapters, switches, and cables have been launched supporting 25, 50, and 100Gb Ethernet speeds including support from major server vendors and storage startups
•Multiple vendors have added or updated support for RDMA over Ethernet
•The growth of NVMe flash and release of the NVMe over Fabrics standard are driving demand for both faster speeds and lower latency in networking
•The growth of cloud, virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure, object storage, and containers are all increasing the popularity of Ethernet as a storage fabric

The world of Ethernet in 2017 promises more of the same. Now we revisit the topic with a look ahead at what’s in store for Ethernet in 2017. With all the incredible advances and learning vectors, SNIA ESF is here to help you keep up. Here’s some of the things to keep track of in the upcoming year:
•Learn what is driving the adoption of faster Ethernet speeds and new Ethernet storage models
•Understand the different copper and optical cabling choices available at different speeds and distances
•Debate how other connectivity options will compete against Ethernet for the new cloud and software-defined storage networks
•And finally look ahead with us at what Ethernet is planning for new connectivity options and faster speeds such as 200 and 400 Gigabit Ethernet

The momentum is strong with Ethernet, and we’re here to help you keep on top of the lightning-fast changes. Come join us to look at the future of Ethernet for storage and join the SNIA ESF webcast on December 1st register here.

Whether they are ready for it or not, IT Operations teams have the Internet of Things, including BYOD devices such as smart watches, added to their list of responsibilities. With employees bringing in potentially compromised devices, it's time for enterprise IT to understand their environment and not just tick the compliance box. On the other hand, IoT poses an opportunity for IT organizations to add significant value to the business by providing real-time operational intelligence. A new monitoring approach called wire data analytics analyzes communications on the network to extract valuable IoT security, performance, and even operations data—and requires no agents!

This unique and fresh webinar will take a look at the process foundation of Performance Engineering and various solution blueprints organizations are using at each step of the process to deliver effective Performance Engineering. We’ll take a look at blueprints from HPE, CA, IBM, Micro Focus, Open Source, etc. We’ll also discuss Agile solutions. You may be surprised to discover how well these solutions may work together and you may already have them in-house. We’ll also show example blueprints some larger organizations are using. We are looking forward to this collaborative webinar. We hope you will join us.

We all are aware of the challenges enterprises are having with growing data and silo’d data stores. Businesses are not able to make reliable decisions with un-trusted data and on top of that, they don’t have access to all data within and outside their enterprise to stay ahead of the competition and make key decisions for their business.

This session will take a deep dive into current Healthcare challenges businesses are having today, as well as, how to build a Modern Data Architecture using emerging technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL datastores, MPP Data stores and scalable and cost effective cloud solutions such as AWS, Azure and BigStep.

In this part of the series, “Everything You Wanted To Know about Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask,” we’re going to be focusing on the network aspect of storage systems.

As with any technical field, it’s too easy to dive into the jargon of the pieces and expect people to know exactly what you mean. Unfortunately, some of the terms may have alternative meanings in other areas of technology. In this Webcast, we look at some of those terms specifically and discuss them as they relate to storage networking systems.

For people who are familiar with Data Center Technology, whether it be Compute, Programming, or even Storage itself, some of these concepts may seem intuitive and obvious… until you start talking to people who are really into this stuff. This series of Webcasts will help be your Secret Decoder Ring to unlock the mysteries of what is going on when you hear these conversations.

Today's storage world would appear to have been divided into three major and mutually exclusive categories: block, file and object storage. Much of the marketing that shapes much of the user demand would appear to suggest that these are three quite distinct animals, and many systems are sold as exclusively either SAN for block, NAS for file or object. And object is often conflated with cloud, a consumption model that can in reality be block, file or object.

But a fixed taxonomy that divides the storage world this way is very limiting, and can be confusing; for instance, when we talk about cloud. How should providers and users buy and consume their storage? Are there other classifications that might help in providing storage solutions to meet specific or more general application needs?

This webcast will explore clustered storage solutions that not only provide multiple end users access to shared storage over a network, but allow the storage itself to be distributed and managed over multiple discrete storage systems. In this webcast, we’ll discuss:
•General principles and specific clustered and distributed systems and the facilities they provide built on the underlying storage
•Better known file systems like NFS, GPFS and Lustre along with a few of the less well known
•How object based systems like S3 have blurred the lines between them and traditional file based solutions.

This webcast should appeal to those interested in exploring some of the different ways of accessing & managing storage, and how that might affect how storage systems are provisioned and consumed. POSIX and other acronyms may be mentioned, but no rocket science beyond a general understanding of the principles of storage will be assumed. Contains no nuts and is suitable for vegans!

As IT environments grow more sophisticated by the day, complexity rises and many CIOs and IT directors lose visibility of their assets and clarity into each asset's performance. The unfortunate result creates IT 'black boxes,' which bring detrimental hazards to enterprise customers when changes are required or things go wrong within interdependent environments. This problem extends beyond the walls of the data center and spans all offices and mobile workers.

According to ESG analysts' Dan Conde and Nik Rouda - "Modern monitoring must be real-time, at scale, and capable of providing visibility wherever IT assets reside. IT Operations Analytics is at the forefront of this monitoring evolution, but understanding how these often diverse technologies fit together and what benefits they deliver to IT can be complex."

Join us for a discussion on Conde & Rouda's seven core criteria for enterprise buyers currently evaluating ITOA and monitoring platforms.

With the constantly evolving IT landscape, migration to a cloud or hybrid-cloud based infrastructure is becoming the new normal for companies around the world. Is your company prepared for the future of configuration management, mapping business services and applications within the cloud environment?

This webinar will review how configuration management dynamics change in the cloud and how you can best prepare yourself for success in discovery and CMDB practices there:

Programmability with flexibility in the network has gained traction in the market due to a variety of use cases. Customers are looking to differentiate the infrastructure with programmability and the addition/removal of custom packet headers. The emerging custom protocols and flexible packet processing in edge, access and data center networks has created the demand for defining the packet processing in high level languages. This requirement is further stressed with SDN and NFV based networks requiring modification of the packet processing logic without knowledge of underlying hardware.

To this end, the newly emerging language P4 is widely being viewed as the de-facto standard in standards based packet processing.

Xilinx is co-chairing the P4 Language Design group, and has developed a compiler to compile programs written in P4 into Xilinx FPGA binary images. This compiler has been demonstrated at the P4 Workshop series held at Stanford University in 2015-16, and at the major SIGCOMM conference this year.

Xilinx All programmable FPGAs offer a unique architectural advantages for these requirements, since they offer programmable logic together with programmable interconnect to a large number of DSP units, SRAM blocks, hardened IO interfaces, and 100GE Ethernet MACs and PCIe blocks. These attributes make it the suitable architecture for the packet processing for today and the future generation of programmable networks.

The new age of Software-Defined Networks is upon us. Of them, open source projects through common platforms. OpenDaylight is an Open Source Software project under the Linux Foundation with the goal of furthering the adoption and innovation of Software Defined Networking (SDN) through the creation of a common industry supported platform.

OpenDaylight Controller project contains more than 48 individual projects, out of which L2Switch & BGP LS PCEP are two important projects.

BGP LS PCEP :- BGP LS PCEP project is an effort to bring two south-bound plugins into the controller: one for supporting BGP Linkstate Distribution as a source of L3 topology information, the other one to add support for Path Computation Element Protocol as a way to instantiate paths into the underlying network.

Join Enterprise Strategy Group in this all-about-SDN webinar. We'll explore the trends in Software-Defined Networking: how it has evolved from data center uses to support WAN use-cases, support for security, new programming models such as containers, and more. We will examine how it offers different models to support traditional networking professionals, DevOps users, and how Layer-2 based software-defined networks differ from pure Layer-3 based systems.

With virtualization and cloud computing revolutionizing the data center, it's time that the network has its own revolution. Join the Network Infrastructure channel on all the hottest topics for network and storage professionals such as software-defined networking, WAN optimization and more to maintain performance and service in your infrastructure